Been to parties that have been busted up because the music was too loud. Never been to a party that was busted up for copyright infringement.
Come to think of it, I better read the license agreement for my sirirus radio. Maybe they specify the number of people who are allowed to be listening to the radio along with me in my car.
Of course it would only work if everyone sold on the same dynamic scale, but people will always seek out the cheapest and easiest way to obtain the product they are looking for. Basically this concept is like a discount for all the first X# of people through the door. In order for this to benefit the 'seller', they'd need to balance out the free and cheap sales with overly priced sales. So for every free song, they'd need to sell the same song for $2 in order to balance out and make the same amount of money as itunes. But that will never happen because when the price exceeds other sites, people will purchase else where. As I fail to see 'popular' artists or labels allowing their music to licensed cheaply to one site, and then gouge another online retailer.
I fail to see how it would be the responsibility of the University to do dirty work of the RIAA regardless of their stance on music/file sharing. If they were responsible that would mean the provider of internet access is responsible for the way it's subscribers utilize their service. I'm sure the school, in most cases would attempt to pass on notices to students unless it goes against policy, but what is somewhat different about this case is that the RIAA is somehow imposing responsibility on the school. Even though the involvement at this point is minimal, it's a slippery slope that could lead to the university policing it's students or acting as an intermediary in a potentially tricky legal situation. 14 letters soon becomes 1400 letters, and then starts using up university resources. Now they have direct relationship between the RIAA and the school, where it is assumed the school is going to handle this burden of distribution at a minimum.
I remember Mazda making a statement about all their cars being rotory engines back in the 80's. Didn't happen. A lot can change in another 13 years, it's quite possible that effiencies in other areas work their way into production much quicker than the path to cheap hybrids. Granted, forward looking statements should to be taken with a grain of salt as they typically don't pan out. This was probably just ment to bring warm fuzzies to all the eco friendly people out there, as well as stock holders who want to know that their company has a clear vision for the future and will continue to be a leader in automotive innovation.
I know I'm a little late to the table on this one, but I just had to say something.. These people were displaying a natural human survial instinct. With no place to run and faced with an extremely dangerous threat, they simply attempted to not draw attention to themselves. Doing anything only insures that you as the next target. Someone who has no training or knowledge with dealing this type of situation will in essance play dead. Fighting an enemy who has no regards for their own life is the worst because they will sacrifice their own life just to take yours. This is contrary to someone who has a high level of self preservation.
You can't equate paintball to real bullets. Trust me, having real bullets coming at you puts you in a completely different frame of mind. I've played paintball before, its about a step up from waterguns. There is a difference between risking pain and losing your life. It's only natural to try and pull yourself out of the line of fire. That's why the military spends so much time on training, conditioning and simulating stress situations long before a soldier is thrown into combat. By the time the soldier is in the line of fire, they are somewhat familiar with what is happening and they know how to react. Even then, the most gungho still might freeze up.
I agree that doing nothing in the face of a crazed gunman will most likely result in your own death and the death of those around you, but what you're expecting is the opposite of survial instinct. To be a hero in a situation like that, you need to be willing to not survive for the hope that those around you might fair a better chance. What's going through the 'hero's' mind is "how many bullets can I take and still have enough strength left to disarm this lunatic", clearly not worried about their own survival.
Yes, you should also check out their study about how when subjects wear red socks they average a 55% win over the house. It clearly shows a direct correlation between red socks and the luck factor of winning at casino games.
You got half of the math down. It's called real estate investment. As long as the country stays stable or improves, the value of this property now worth 77 million will most likely increase. On top of that, this estate itself is a profit center. People invest money in a lot of things, property is definitely one of the major ones.
This sounds pretty much like how the military does it.. although the military is obviously less choosy about accepting people and more interested in where to place them. They also have surveys you take once you are in that are paired with your military history. Results are used as indicators for future enlisted; or so I've been told.
I think this is going to work differently than many people are thinking. These internet companies and blog services are still going to have to police themselves and try to keep the trolls at bay. In the chance that you have some crafty troll that is creating lots of dubious accounts in an attempt to harass their customers, these sites now have extra power to prosecute these evil doers. Right now, there is little protection. The most a site could do is continue to delete these accounts; which is hardly a deterrent. In some situations, like a personal website or self owned blog, the user themselves might try and file a charge. I'm sure there will be some discretion used. There is a difference between a random "bad" post and someone who is relentless in action.
To me, I see the payment or tuition as a simple business transaction. After all, the goal of any private university is to turn a profit. The student is expecting a quality service in return. If someone has a complaint about that service, they deserve the right to complain. To me, I see this being no different that that online retailer extortion article we saw the other day. If you do not give a favorable review, we will hold your money hostage. This is trash. The university is effectively extorting a student because they find fault and going public with their opinions.
Lets say I bought something on ebay, and left negative feedback because the shipping was taking a long time. Then the shipper decided that they weren't even going to give me my product because I made a public complaint. I find it hard to believe that the retailer could say they have a policy that says "if you leave negative feedback, we reserve the right to take your money", would ever hold up.
But they want you to pay for streaming cinema quality movies and other on demand services. Or how about a completely over the network OS? Sure, you might only read email right now.
When I bought one of the early 14.4 modems that came out, my friend told me I was nuts and would never use that speed. Then the doom demo came out.
Using that analogy.. Lets say you leave some cash on the dashboard of your car and leave it in the parking lot unlocked. When you return you find that your money has been stolen. Now you go to the police station to report a crime. They are only going to have one word for you and it rhymes with dumbass.
I think I made a mistake in using the 8-track analogy. As it is a form of media. I was meaning as in 8-track is the format and the player is likened to software. Even if you can read all the bytes on the disk, will they be in a format that is readable? Do you have any 25 year old spreadsheets or doc files? If you do, I don't know if you have the software to actually make sense of them. Even characters ascii characters are being phased out by unicode. Who knows what the next 30 years will bring.
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Been to parties that have been busted up because the music was too loud. Never been to a party that was busted up for copyright infringement.
Come to think of it, I better read the license agreement for my sirirus radio. Maybe they specify the number of people who are allowed to be listening to the radio along with me in my car.
will it blend? that would be sweet.
Of course it would only work if everyone sold on the same dynamic scale, but people will always seek out the cheapest and easiest way to obtain the product they are looking for. Basically this concept is like a discount for all the first X# of people through the door. In order for this to benefit the 'seller', they'd need to balance out the free and cheap sales with overly priced sales. So for every free song, they'd need to sell the same song for $2 in order to balance out and make the same amount of money as itunes. But that will never happen because when the price exceeds other sites, people will purchase else where. As I fail to see 'popular' artists or labels allowing their music to licensed cheaply to one site, and then gouge another online retailer.
I fail to see how it would be the responsibility of the University to do dirty work of the RIAA regardless of their stance on music/file sharing. If they were responsible that would mean the provider of internet access is responsible for the way it's subscribers utilize their service. I'm sure the school, in most cases would attempt to pass on notices to students unless it goes against policy, but what is somewhat different about this case is that the RIAA is somehow imposing responsibility on the school. Even though the involvement at this point is minimal, it's a slippery slope that could lead to the university policing it's students or acting as an intermediary in a potentially tricky legal situation. 14 letters soon becomes 1400 letters, and then starts using up university resources. Now they have direct relationship between the RIAA and the school, where it is assumed the school is going to handle this burden of distribution at a minimum.
I remember Mazda making a statement about all their cars being rotory engines back in the 80's. Didn't happen. A lot can change in another 13 years, it's quite possible that effiencies in other areas work their way into production much quicker than the path to cheap hybrids. Granted, forward looking statements should to be taken with a grain of salt as they typically don't pan out. This was probably just ment to bring warm fuzzies to all the eco friendly people out there, as well as stock holders who want to know that their company has a clear vision for the future and will continue to be a leader in automotive innovation.
I know I'm a little late to the table on this one, but I just had to say something.. These people were displaying a natural human survial instinct. With no place to run and faced with an extremely dangerous threat, they simply attempted to not draw attention to themselves. Doing anything only insures that you as the next target. Someone who has no training or knowledge with dealing this type of situation will in essance play dead. Fighting an enemy who has no regards for their own life is the worst because they will sacrifice their own life just to take yours. This is contrary to someone who has a high level of self preservation.
You can't equate paintball to real bullets. Trust me, having real bullets coming at you puts you in a completely different frame of mind. I've played paintball before, its about a step up from waterguns. There is a difference between risking pain and losing your life. It's only natural to try and pull yourself out of the line of fire. That's why the military spends so much time on training, conditioning and simulating stress situations long before a soldier is thrown into combat. By the time the soldier is in the line of fire, they are somewhat familiar with what is happening and they know how to react. Even then, the most gungho still might freeze up.
I agree that doing nothing in the face of a crazed gunman will most likely result in your own death and the death of those around you, but what you're expecting is the opposite of survial instinct. To be a hero in a situation like that, you need to be willing to not survive for the hope that those around you might fair a better chance. What's going through the 'hero's' mind is "how many bullets can I take and still have enough strength left to disarm this lunatic", clearly not worried about their own survival.
Yes, you should also check out their study about how when subjects wear red socks they average a 55% win over the house. It clearly shows a direct correlation between red socks and the luck factor of winning at casino games.
You got half of the math down. It's called real estate investment. As long as the country stays stable or improves, the value of this property now worth 77 million will most likely increase. On top of that, this estate itself is a profit center. People invest money in a lot of things, property is definitely one of the major ones.
This sounds pretty much like how the military does it.. although the military is obviously less choosy about accepting people and more interested in where to place them. They also have surveys you take once you are in that are paired with your military history. Results are used as indicators for future enlisted; or so I've been told.
Or perhaps 4 more glasses of wine means 4 less glasses of soda.
Hmm.. by these standards I've written a clone of pong that will live up to the full potential of the PS3.
I was highly skeptical too.. but I heard rumor that this has been confirmed by Woo Hwang.
I think this is going to work differently than many people are thinking. These internet companies and blog services are still going to have to police themselves and try to keep the trolls at bay. In the chance that you have some crafty troll that is creating lots of dubious accounts in an attempt to harass their customers, these sites now have extra power to prosecute these evil doers. Right now, there is little protection. The most a site could do is continue to delete these accounts; which is hardly a deterrent. In some situations, like a personal website or self owned blog, the user themselves might try and file a charge. I'm sure there will be some discretion used. There is a difference between a random "bad" post and someone who is relentless in action.
computers were so big, we'd call them desktops.
To me, I see the payment or tuition as a simple business transaction. After all, the goal of any private university is to turn a profit. The student is expecting a quality service in return. If someone has a complaint about that service, they deserve the right to complain. To me, I see this being no different that that online retailer extortion article we saw the other day. If you do not give a favorable review, we will hold your money hostage. This is trash. The university is effectively extorting a student because they find fault and going public with their opinions.
Lets say I bought something on ebay, and left negative feedback because the shipping was taking a long time. Then the shipper decided that they weren't even going to give me my product because I made a public complaint. I find it hard to believe that the retailer could say they have a policy that says "if you leave negative feedback, we reserve the right to take your money", would ever hold up.
would you like some WINE with...
But they want you to pay for streaming cinema quality movies and other on demand services. Or how about a completely over the network OS? Sure, you might only read email right now.
When I bought one of the early 14.4 modems that came out, my friend told me I was nuts and would never use that speed. Then the doom demo came out.
Using that analogy.. Lets say you leave some cash on the dashboard of your car and leave it in the parking lot unlocked. When you return you find that your money has been stolen. Now you go to the police station to report a crime. They are only going to have one word for you and it rhymes with dumbass.
Sorry no UFO, all he found was porn.
you never know what you're gonna get.
By the time this thing is a stable alternative to the sun JVM, dialup connections will be as common as 8track players.
group hug everyone
Perhaps he was surfing porn at the same time he was writing this.
I started to laugh, but then the laughter turned to concerned when I realized that this was modded insightful rather than funny.
I think I made a mistake in using the 8-track analogy. As it is a form of media. I was meaning as in 8-track is the format and the player is likened to software. Even if you can read all the bytes on the disk, will they be in a format that is readable? Do you have any 25 year old spreadsheets or doc files? If you do, I don't know if you have the software to actually make sense of them. Even characters ascii characters are being phased out by unicode. Who knows what the next 30 years will bring.